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Latest News - October 2007
- We're Looking At Record Sales In Graphics Chips
- NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
- Boston Red Sox Sweep, World Series Champs!
- Uk Gov: Schools Don't Sign With MS
- Love, Revenge, And The Internet
- Apple Admits Leopard BSOD Issue
- Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650
- Hot News! -- Diamond Multimedia’s XDNA
- Leopard Lost Its Wireless Backup
- HD DVD Players Under $200
- Comcast Continues To Deny Throttling BT
- Defective DVDs, BSODs Plague Leopard
- HP Ignoring Wi-Fi Probs in Pavilion Notebooks?
- Crysis SP Demo Available For Download
- Hardware Round-up
- The (Virtual) Sky Is Falling
- Apple Imposes New iPhone Purchase Limits
- Leapin' Leopards!
- Oink May Squeal Again
- NVIDIA To Host DX10 Crysis Demo On nZone
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All News for October 2007
It's a grand time to be in the GPU business. According to Jon Peddie Research, graphics chips manufacturers shipped 97.9 million units in the third quarter, a 20% rise over the preceding quarter, and 18% more than during the same period last year. Intel is still king; AMD is the little engine that could; but it's Nvidia that's showing...
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In the GPU business, like any other semiconductor technology, die size, cost and performance-per-watt are the name of the game. Performance-per-watt from a design and manufacturing perspective is important on multiple levels. Certainly, power efficient products are important to the consumer but also, generally speaking, power-efficient...
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As many of you know, some of us on the HH Staff hail from one of the greatest cities on earth, Boston Massachusetts. As such it give us great pride to congratulate the WORLD CHAMPION BOSTON RED SOX for their second World Series victory in 4 years! Boston Red Sox - World Series Champs Mike Bauman of MLB.com put it best... "The...
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It seems that we can't turn around in our cubicles without a new story about some European government or agency mentioning Microsoft and anti-trust in the same breath.The latest example is from the United Kingdom where the educational technology group Becta has asked for an immediate halt to any licensing of Vista and/or Office 2007 for educators. ...
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When most people think about revenge on the Internet, they might think of signing someone up for unwanted e-mails or even changing passwords to various accounts. If one really wanted to get spiteful they could try adding a Wikipedia entry, writing nasty a nasty blog, or the ever-so-popular removing someone from your MySpace friends list.Pilar...
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Some users have been having issues with a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) after an installation. Apple has posted a support document on their site, which coincidentally also appears as the top search on the support page, indicating how prevalent the issue is.According to the support document the issue may be related to "third-party 'enhancement'...
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After many months of trickling out information regarding Penryn and Intel’s 45nm manufacturing process, we’re finally able to offer up some firsthand information regarding Yorkfield, Intel’s quad-core, desktop Penryn derivative. We recently got our hands on a new Yorkfield-based Core 2 Extreme QX9650 processor and were able to run it...
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Look for the mark of excellence with Diamond Multimedia’s xDNA™ CHATSWORTH, CA —November 11, 2007— Diamond Multimedia (www.diamondmm.com), a leading manufacturer of PC graphics cards, sound cards and communications products, today unveiled their newly developed xDNA©™ technology platform. This new technology platform enables...
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When a new operating system is announced, it often has a long list of features that will attract potential customers. Unfortunately, not all of those features end up making the final cut. Sometimes the missing feature(s) are as underlying as a new file system, but other times it is a missing utility that provides some non-vital...
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The continuing battle between Blu-Ray and HD DVD might eventually boil down to who can get their player into more consumer hands. A large part of that equation is price. How does less than $200 sound?If you're worried that $200 will buy you a cut rate player, think again. We're talking about a HD DVD player that was going...
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We recently reported that Comcast has been accused of throttling BitTorrent traffic. Initially Comcast denied that it was doing anything to throttle BitTorrent traffic, but later revised its stance to indicate that their TOS gives them the right and obligation to make sure that the Comcast network isn't being used to traffic in illicit...
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All is not well in Apple-Land. Several threads on the Apple discussion forums indicate a defective batch of DVDs, as well as BSODs ("blue screen of death") after installation. Now, much as we always say about Microsoft, you can't expect 100% flawless behavior; there's no such thing as bug-free software after all. But the defective DVDs, on...
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It appears there are a number of threads at HP's support forums. These forums posts first started in June 2007, and there is no official HP solution yet. In fact, customers are helping themselves, or at least trying, but there appears to be little or no HP response on the forums.Tipped off by a reader, David Berlind investigates...
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Just a heads-up to you all on a rainy New England weekend. Here's something to pass the time for you, while the rest of us slave and toil over new hardware here in the lab. It's work here people; no fun and games! New Graphics Cards, CPUs and tiny Notebooks on the bench - oh my... In any event, the new Crysis SP demo...
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Video: ASUS 8600GTS Video Card @ GamepyreMSI GeForce NX8800GT 512MB Graphics Card @ TweaktownSapphire HD2400XT and HD2600XT Graphics Cards @ Virtual-Hideout Processors: The Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 Overclocking Report @ TechARPMotherboards & Chipsets: ASRock 4Core1333-Viiv Motherboard @ Legit ReviewsECS P33T-A motherboard @ t-breakGigabyte...
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What's the number one problem plaguing the future of the Internet as we know (and love) it? If you guessed: spam, piracy, pornography, identity theft, or even video games you're somewhat close but still off. The answer might very well be routers.All the fiber optic lines in the world are 100% useless without the routers to figure...
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Cash? Nope, you can't buy an iPhone with cash any longer. Nor can you buy more than two, as Apple has instituted new policies to prevent reselling of the devices.The new policy started Thursday, said Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris. Before then, there was no cash restriction and the purchase limit was five per person. "Customer...
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With 300+ new features, it'd take at least one whole article to properly cover Apple's newest iteration of OS X, 10.5 a.k.a. Leopard. Some of the new 'features' are really more in the way of bringing programs like iCal up to date, but some of them are genuinely useful or just fun to tinker with. Most of the 300+ features are in...
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Oink was taken down on Oct. 23rd, and --- who else but --- The Pirate Bay says it will bring it back, sort of.OiNK was taken down on October 23 by police in the Netherlands and Britain in conjunction with the IFPI and BPI, and a message on the site's front page indicates that an investigation was ongoing into the "identities and activities"...
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NVIDIA To Host Highly Anticipated Directx 10 Demo Of Crysis On Nzone.Com News Facts: PC gamers will soon be able to play the most advanced video game ever created. The Crysis demo—available tomorrow from nZone.com—includes the complete first level of the game, representing about 45 minutes of gameplay. Crysis was developed...
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Me too. And I say that without even knowing what business you're in. But if you're not in the Webshots.com business, you're working too hard. Webshots is a picture sharing site. It was sold by CNet Networks yesterday to the American Greetings Corporation for $45 million. That sounds good, until you find out CNet bought Webshots in 2004. For...
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That particularly virulent .pdf trojan nicknamed the "Gozi Trojan" is back again in a new and slightly more sophisticated form. It uses a flaw in the Adobe Acrobat v.8.x. reader to steal your info as you're entering it into forms. You know that little padlock you see when you're communicating with an SSL encrypted page? It's just a pretty...
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